Top 10 novels about office jobs
Uitgereikt door The Guardian
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Identifiable by the bright front doors on their covers, domestic noir novels have become an established genre in recent years. But we don’t yet have a term for their office counterpart. And yet toon meer there is just as much power in this setting.
Much the same extremes of human experience play out there. Colleagues take on the emotional heft normally absorbed by family members; swathes of our most personal belongings often lurk under desks and in drawers. There are few in-jokes as potent as the office in-joke, but the mood can shift quickly with the pressure of an angry boss or a missed deadline. The office is a place of extremes, intense with the buzz of industry and the threat of failure, and that’s a perfect starting point for fiction.
Caroline Corcoran – LT author page toon minder
Much the same extremes of human experience play out there. Colleagues take on the emotional heft normally absorbed by family members; swathes of our most personal belongings often lurk under desks and in drawers. There are few in-jokes as potent as the office in-joke, but the mood can shift quickly with the pressure of an angry boss or a missed deadline. The office is a place of extremes, intense with the buzz of industry and the threat of failure, and that’s a perfect starting point for fiction.
Caroline Corcoran – LT author page toon minder
Werk | Sorteerveld |
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De Duivel draagt Prada (2003) door Lauren Weisberger | 1 |
Zo kwamen we aan het eind (2007) door Joshua Ferris | 2 |
De Cirkel (2013) door Dave Eggers | 3 |
Not Working (2016) door Lisa Owens | 4 |
A Far Cry from Kensington (1988) door Muriel Spark | 5 |
The Best of Everything (1958) door Rona Jaffe | 6 |
Un lavoro perfetto (2015) door Kikuko Tsumura | 7 |
The Other Black Girl (2021) door Zakiya Dalila Harris | 8 |
Careering (2022) door Daisy Buchanan | 9 |
Geluksmomenten (2021) door Clare Chambers | 10 |
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